Queen's Birthday Honours
16 June 2006The Head of Education at the Fitzwillam Museum and an eminent University astronomer have each been honoured with an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday...
Business leaders support tougher stance on climate change
08 June 2006The Cambridge Programme for Industry has announced that fourteen senior executives of some of the UK’s leading businesses have approached the Prime Minister offering their...
Young Researcher awarded
24 May 2006A young researcher working at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Brain Repair has been commended at the Houses of Parliament for his research on...
Cricket International at Fenners
21 April 2006The Sri Lankan national cricket team will be playing the inaugural match of their UK tour against a British Universities XI at Fenner’s in Cambridge.
Blue Peter in Cambridge
06 April 2006Long-running BBC Television children’s programme Blue Peter visits Cambridge this evening.
Campaign launch in Hong Kong
05 April 2006More than 450 Cambridge alumni and friends attended last night’s Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign launch event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong.
Scientists Alzheimers research wins medal
03 April 2006A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), Richard Page, has been hailed as one of the UK’s top young scientists after...
£3.8 million gift for Conservation Biology
24 March 2006The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund has provided £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.
Generations of astronomers survey the stars
16 February 2006A Cambridge PhD student is following in his great-great-grandfather's footsteps by helping to measure the speeds of up to one million stars passing near the...
‘Sugar-coated pill’ helps the medicine go down
02 February 2006Cambridge scientists have discovered a solution for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.